The honeybee queen influences the regulation of colony drone production

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1092-1099

  Wharton, Katie E ^a   Dyer, Fred C ^a   Huang, Zachary Y ^a   Getty, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Drone production; Honeybee; Queen worker conflict; Sequential decision making

Indexed keywords

COLONY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HONEYBEE; LIFE HISTORY; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 35848953198     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm086     Document Type: Article

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